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Understanding faith : religious belief and its place in society /
Militant atheists often mirror the worst kind of ignorance and hostility that they condemn in traditional believers. Writing both as a philosopher and an Anglican Christian, Professor Clark explores this initial perception, considering such topics as the alleged openness of 'scientists' co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA :
Imprint Academic,
©2009.
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| Colección: | St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Devils and Mental Microbes
- Protestants and Atheists against the Idols
- Defence of Faith
- Devils and Mental Microbes
- Other Worlds
- 2. Projects, Conjectures, Refutations
- Dogmas and Disagreements
- Science and Story
- Truth and Imagination
- Metaphysics
- Prayer
- 3. Understanding Scripture
- Reading Scripture
- Hermeneutical Traditions
- Explanations, Therapies and Demons
- Uncovering Evil
- 4. Abolition of Man
- Paradox of Objective Value
- Anthropocentric Synthesis
- De-Moralizing Nature
- Plato and the Book of Genesis
- Choice before 'Environmentalists'
- Stripping Away Significance
- 5. Can Animals be our Friends?
- Pythagoras and the Eternal Self
- Common Sense about Friends and Animals
- Words and the Wordless
- 6. What's Wrong with Darwinian Evolution?
- Social Darwinism
- Some Problems with Scientific Darwinism
- Gradual and the Catastrophic
- Darwin's Doubt
- Intelligence and Natural Norms
- 7. Waking Up
- Morals in the Dream of Life
- Waking from the Dream
- Scientific Enlightenment
- 8. What is God?
- Understanding Words and Pictures
- Gods and the Wow Factor
- God of Atheists
- Orthodox Argument
- 9. World Orders, World Religions
- World Order and the Secularist Illusion
- Clash of Civilizations
- World Beast and Apocalypse
- Enmity, Liberty and Solidarity within the State
- 10. More Local Problems
- Honour, 'Indoctrination' and Faith Schools
- Two Sorts of Slavishness
- Sex and Sacred Violence
- Pleonexia, Health and Achievement
- 11. Considering the End.